CT’s horror cattle ship exposed

Keith Preston

3 years ago

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like the rest of us.”

Sam Conniff Allende

STORY OF THE DAY

Inside the horror cattle ship stinking up Cape Town

By Velani Ludidi

Photos from inside the Al Kuwait, which is docked in Cape Town with 19,000 cattle aboard, show distressed animals. Some had been lying in their urine and faeces for the past eight days.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

🇪🇺🔱 The European Union on Monday launched a naval task force to combat militant attacks on Red Sea shipping. Dubbed Eunavfor Aspides, officials responsible did not say how many vessels would be patrolling the body of water.

… 🛟🚢 driving home the point, after Houthi militants had hit a vessel in the Red Sea, forcing its crew to abandon ship on Sunday evening. Two anti-ship ballistic missiles struck the Rubymar, a comparatively small cargo carrier.

🇺🇳🇺🇸 The US has proposed an alternative Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and a suspension of the planned Rafah offensive. It is one of the first times the US has evoked the term “ceasefire” in this war.

🛈⚖️ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is launching a last-ditch bid to prevent his extradition from Britain to the US. The more than 13-year battle will see his lawyers challenge a 2022 extradition order this week in London’s High Court.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

📷 Benine du Toit

“Friends.”

Munyawana Private Reserve.

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IN NUMBERS

26.12.2002

… when the first western film aired in North Korea. It was Bend it Like Beckham.

FACTS OF THE DAY

Today in 1877, Swan Lake debuts at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Earth’s tallest waterfall is underwater beneath the Denmark Strait.

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS

🏉 Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus named a 43-man squad for an alignment camp next month. There are 19 World Cup winners and 27 capped Boks in the group.

⚽ Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson, 76, stepped down on Monday. Oliver Glasner was appointed as his replacement. Hodgson was hospitalised last week after falling ill.

🎾 Australian Open winner Jannik Sinner said his victory in the Rotterdam ATP 500 event was still important to him, after the Italian rose to a career-high No 3 in world rankings.

Agriculture funding in Africa is ripe for innovation

By Absa

DAILY MAVERICK TODAY

Key questions remain but, more critically, where is Nkosana Makate’s Please Call Me patent?

By Toby Shapshak

Finance Minister Godongwana juggles SA’s deepening deficit and election expectations

By Marianne Merten

‘For the people, by the people’ — fact-checking seven claims in Rise Mzansi’s election manifesto

By Africa Check

Five key takeaways from Gauteng Premier Lesufi’s speech to a tough Nasrec crowd

By Nonkululeko Njilo

Ramaphosa gives go-ahead to dig into Prasa corruption — four years late, says activist

By Steve Kretzmann for GroundUp

OPINIONISTAS

Confronting South Africa’s water crisis starts with conserving the water we already have

By Kerusha Lutchmiah

Enoch Godongwana’s Budget comes as millions of South Africans face a bleak future

By Mmusi Maimane

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